Machine Learning Engineer at Zenos in San Mateo Werqwise
- Company: Zenos
- Location: San Mateo Werqwise
- Posted: Sep 21, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Experience: 5+ years
Overview
What We’re Looking For Design, build, and refine robust and performant ML models. Take a key role in the foundation of the overall AI/ML roadmap. Work with the team to set standards, define the tech stack, and mentor new hires as the company scales.
Job description
- What We’re Looking For
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and refine robust and performant ML models.
- Take a key role in the foundation of the overall AI/ML roadmap.
- Work with the team to set standards, define the tech stack, and mentor new hires as the company scales.
- Define problems as you solve them, work with others to crack big challenges, and dive into multiple parts of the stack.
- Work on robotics and play with small bits of hardware.
Requirements
- Excellence: Ideally 5+ years of professional experience in top-tier startups, leading technology companies, or elite research labs designing, building, refining robust and performant ML models.
- AI/ML: Experience in perception, terrain mapping, proprioception, object recognition, segmentation, action planning, VLAs, reinforcement learning, and deep neural nets.
- Ownership: Given our early stage, your scope will be expansive. You'll have a key role in the foundation of our overall AI/ML roadmap. You will work with the team to set standards, define the tech stack, and mentor new hires as we scale.
- Dynamism: You enjoy defining the problem as you solve it, and work well with others to crack big challenges. You’re not afraid to dive into multiple parts of the stack and do something that is fundamentally new. You're excited about robotics, and playing with small bits of hardware.
Skills
Required
- Thrives in ambiguity
- Operates independently
- Enjoys varied problems
- Works well with others
- Excited about robotics
- Perception
- Terrain mapping
- Proprioception
- Object recognition
- Segmentation
- Action planning
- VLAs
Benefits
- Competitive salary + significant equity: you to own a part of what we're building together
- Whatever resources you need: Blackwell GPUs, etc.
- Relocation support, 100% health coverage, daily lunches
About Zenos
Zenos is a highly funded next-gen AI/robotics startup, with strong customer demand. We are delivering AI productivity to the physical world. We’re attacking a trillion dollar market opportunity with a world class team at lightning speed, and having a ton of fun while doing it. This role is for someone who thrives in ambiguity, operates independently, and likes working on interesting and varied problems with smart people from places like Google, Amazon, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and Apple. Our founders previously started and sold a successful AI company with a nine figure exit, and our CEO has been an executive at a hyperscale tech company. Join us early and take on outsized equity ownership. This is a chance to join a top company with a unique strategy to build the next phase of AI - in the physical world. We have a fun, friendly team, and are hiring fast. We are currently in stealth mode, but excited to launch with major announcements soon.